GREEN ARROW #1
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iFanboy
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Art by DAN JURGENS and GEORGE PÈREZ
Cover by BRETT BOOTH and ROB HUNTER
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
I’m coming to the character as a new reader. I know a bit about the (past) DCU, but never really read Green Arrow unless he was in a team-up or crossover. I like Hawkeye from the Marvel U, and have always though Green Arrow looked like he might be cool too.
Maybe he is.
His comic, on the other hand, has been hit right in the bullseye with a mediocrity arrow. I figured this would be a good jumping on point, and it is in the sense that it sets up the character’s situation and supporting cast. It failed to give me a reason not to jump right off though.
There’s action, but no risk. It seems like every problem can be solved with a MacGuffin gizmo. I think that’s the challenge in writing a gadgeteer character, you have to make the person more interesting than their gadgets. Maybe this will improve now that the foundation has been laid… There is potential.
The art was ok, but wasn’t impressive. Decidedly average.
In the end, I will at least wait till the digital version is discounted to try again.
Art: 2 - Average
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Art was a 2, for the record.
Also: s/though/thought/ in that first paragraph.
Green Arrow is indeed cool, I love the character. J.T. Krul though, never fails to disappoint. His name being attached kept me from purchasing a book about a character who is one of my top five favorites.
Good to know. Maybe I should try to find some old classics or something. I need a “Green Arrow: Where Do I Start?” post. 🙂
Any suggestions on trades?
Brad Meltzer’s run is the best use of this character, this new series is like Ultimate Hawkeye meets Smallville Oliver. Not much in the character department.
Kevin Smith’s Quiver is good.
Meltzer’s Archer’s Quest is superb.
Hell, read Indentity Crisis. Meltzer wrote that and GA is one of the main characters.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Arrow-Archers-Quest-Vol/dp/1401200443
I just finished reading this issue, & I have to say this review is pretty spot on, I too was coming onto this book as a new reader, and was hoping it would be good (up to this point I’ve loved everything else I’ve read in the New 52 so far), sadly this was the first of the new 52 books that left me disappointed, I’ll probably try this again once they get a new writer, until then I’ll just go a dig up some old Green Arrow tpbs.